Re: Best approach for meeting Success Criterion 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus via ESC key

> That script relates to Heydon’s toggletip,  not the tooltip -  i.e. one that is triggered not by focusing/hovering, but by activation. Still not sure whether it therefore can apply in quite the same way to true hover/focus content.

We need to separate ‘true hover’ into two:
1. Hover from CSS
2. Hover from JavaScript

In general you can only close something with JavaScript that was opened with JavaScript.

Patrick and I discussed this on twitter a bit:
https://twitter.com/alastc/status/1032200444259516416?s=21

I guess it might be possible to create a function that detects anything that in in a CSS-focused state, but I don’t think it would be able to undo the action that the CSS created.

However, the general conclusion is that use of CSS-only hover (or focus-within) fails 1.4.13.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing, CSS-only drop-down / hover menus tend to fail on multiple SC already.

Cheers,

-Alastair